PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Public Houses (9 June 2014)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which organisations (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department met to discuss regulation of pub companies in (i) 2013 and (ii) 2014; and on what dates those meetings took place.

Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)

Answer

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has taken an even handed approach to speaking with stakeholders from all sides of the debate in developing our proposals for statutory intervention in the pubs sector.

In 2013, BIS Ministers met the following organisations:

Date

Organisation

Minister

22 January

Ministerial Roundtable with licensee groups including:

British Institute of Innkeeping; GMB Union; Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations; Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers; Brighton & Hove Licensees Association; Campaign for Real Ale; Fair Pint Campaign; Independent Pub Confederation; Federation of Small Businesses; Guild of Master Victuallers.

Jo Swinson

28 January

Ministerial Roundtable including:

British Beer and Pub Association; Punch Taverns; Star Pubs and Bars.

Jo Swinson

7 February

Ministerial Roundtable including:

Greene King; Shepherd Neame; Everards Brewery; Admiral Taverns; Hook Norton Brewery; Independent Family Brewers of Britain.

Jo Swinson

21 February

Meeting with the Scottish Licensed Trade Association.

Jo Swinson

27 February

Meeting with Enterprise Inns

Michael Fallon

10 June

Ministerial Roundtable including:

Everards Brewery; Fuller Smith & Turner; Admiral Taverns; Hook Norton; McMullen & Sons; Shepherd Neame; Wadworth & Co; Trust Inns; Greene King; Titanic Brewery; Westerham Ales; Society of Independent Brewers.

Jo Swinson

12 June

Ministerial Roundtable including:

British Beer and Pub Association; Enterprise Inns; Marston's; Mitchells & Butlers; Punch Taverns; Spirit Pub Company; Star Pubs and Bars; Wellington Pub Company.

Jo Swinson

18 July

Meeting with Greg Mulholland MP and the Independent Pub Confederation.

Jo Swinson

30 September

Meeting with the British Beer and Pub Association.

Vince Cable

29 October

Meeting with the Federation of Small Businesses (pubs were discussed as part of a wider meeting).

Vince Cable

In 2014, BIS Ministers met the following organisations:

Date

Organisation

Minister

30 January

Meeting with the Federation of Small Businesses.

Vince Cable

12 February

Meeting with Sir Peter Luff MP and Admiral Taverns; Hook Norton Brewery.

Jenny Willott

17 March

Meeting with Greene King.

Jenny Willott

24 March

Meeting with representatives of the British Beer and Pub Association; Punch Taverns; Shepherd Neame.

Jenny Willott

31 March

Meeting with the Campaign for Real Ale.

Jenny Willott

25 April

Meeting with S A Brains.

Jenny Willott

In addition to meetings with organisations, Ministers met with a number of tied tenants. Officials also met with stakeholders before, during and after the consultation process to discuss our proposals to establish a Statutory Code and an independent Adjudicator.


Answered by:
Jenny Willott (Liberal Democrat)
16 June 2014

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